{"id":359846,"date":"2017-08-16T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=597e55b2fe3a48919b67fefec9402704"},"modified":"2017-08-16T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T15:20:01","slug":"mars-2020-mission-to-use-smart-methods-to-seek-signs-of-past-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=359846","title":{"rendered":"Mars 2020 mission to use smart methods to seek signs of past life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission&#8217;s Deputy Project Scientist, Dr Ken Williford. The 2020 mission builds on the successes of prior rovers, to make coordinated measurements that could detect signs of ancient life &#8211; or biosignatures &#8211; in their original spatial context. These techniques, known as &#8220;spatially resolved biosignature analysis&#8221; derive from geochemical analysis of early life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission&#8217;s Deputy Project Scientist, Dr Ken Williford. The 2020 mission builds on the s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359847,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359846\/revisions\/359847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}